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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

A Simple Diet

My Review

For many years, I've had people ask me for a simple diet plan because complicated ones always leads to failure. Last month, I was on Stumbleupon and found an eating plan called The No Bullshit Diet . It is very easy to follow. I decided to try it out because I needed to lose a few pounds. My review of the diet found that it's one of the easiest diets to follow and it is effective. The only drawback, you can't have any snacks and it doesn't talk about healthy nutrition. A novice could lose weight but do it by eating junk food.

with a sample meal plan, how to page, food diary, and assessment page.

The plan is as follows, you are eating breakfast, lunch and dinner without any snacks. Women are allowed 1500 calories a day and the men get 1800 calories. See the chart below.

Women Men

1500 calories 1800 calories

Breakfast Breakfast

400 calories 500 calories

Lunch Lunch

500 calories 600 calories

Dinner Dinner

600 calories 700 calories

If the above calories are too high, you can tweak the numbers. For example, I consumed 1400 calories a day by subtracting 100 calories from lunch. If you decrease the amount of calories, just don't drop it too low, don't go under 1200 calories and 1500 calories if you are a man. Let me know what do you think of this ultra simple diet. Do you find it doable or a little crazy?

Far, far too low on calories for me! Female, 6'1", 180 pounds, wearing a size 2. I run, I swim, I kick box (hey, it's fun!), I have the Insanity DVDs. I carry moderate body fat (17%), but if I drop more, I start looking like a skeleton. I take in between 3,000 and 3,4000 calories a day to stay with my current weight. Unless I'm going crazy and doing a triathalon, and then I up it to nearly 5,000 and I'm still losing weight then.